Converting PAL menus to NTSC

[asifanwar]

Hi,

Sorry if this is in the wrong place, but I was not sure where to put it!

I am pretty comfortable in ripping an NTSC disc and reencoding it with CCE and sticking it back together with the original menus using IDOedit/IFOupdate (thanks to everyone involved with those threads!)

My question is this: if I have a PAL disc, I can easily convert the movie across to NTSC (using AVIsynth and CCE), but how do I convert over the PAL motion menus to become NTSC motion menus. They are 25fps, interlaced 720x576 resolution.

I tried this: frameserve them in DVD2AVI. Re-encode them as 23.97 720x480 (with pulldown) and then RE-MUX them back into the original VOB. It kind of worked, in that the menus DID change shape and play video. But the audio had disappeared and the 'masks' for the buttons were in the wrong places.

Any ideas how to convert over these PAL menus? Thanks!

[Tatjahna]

I am on a big job of doing that kind of stuff ...

You can take a look at my guide : http://www.b2solutions.ca/dvdauthoring/guide.html

I simply re-author all the stuff by myself...

If your audio is out of sync, you have to do a kind of stretch.. Do not follow the procedure in my guide, there is a faster way to do it.. When you are ready to work with the audio, just do a search on this forum for "wavefix" and "ssrc" .. You will find an attachment of those programs and there is a complete topic that will help you how to use those programs.

Sorry to do not have better way to that, as I don't know any other ones for now!

If anyone have clues on how to avoid complicated procedures like mines, please, I beg you to share it with us!! :)

Hope this helps

[auenf]

you need to convert the subpicture as well, but that will only be a 1 frame size change (720x576->720x480)

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